Worlding Japan: Totality and the Ends of History

Worlding Japan: Totality and the Ends of History

Tom Looser - Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, New York University

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Room 217A, Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS) See map
320 York Street
New Haven, CT 6511

Against the backdrop of new forms of economic and technological globalization, the past 15 years has been a time of complex transition in Japan. The cultural and artistic refigurations of this period have included, among other things, a kind of return to history. This paper examines this return to history. The focus is on several types of imagery, with connections to anime, “Superflat” art and elsewhere; the paper looks at the ways in which Japan (and the world) are positioned within these image-types, and some of the implications of these images of Japan within the contemporary world.

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